42 points

If you’re pounding back energy drinks on the regular, the type of sugar they use should be the least of your concerns.

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13 points

I’m a pourover coffee kinda girl myself

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11 points

nuh uh i like my kidney stones :3

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This is a common joke but I genuinely tried to find a link between energy drinks and kidney stones on google scholar and could just go as far as soda and acidic drinks being maybe a little worse.

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4 points

Kidney stones are definitely linked to dehydration and so are excess sugar and caffeine.

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3 points

nerd emoji

but also very good to know ty <3

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Honestly, I’d be more worried about the metabolic accelerant effects, as well as the dehydration and the gastrointestinal irritation (the laxative effect isn’t because it’s a good solvent:)) ).

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2 points

is there even a sour patch kids flavored beverage that isn’t an energy drink?

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1 point

Four Loko?

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32 points

Can I PLEASE just get a bubbly drink with caffeine that is unsweetned. The canned coffee is all too expensive and most of that has sugar in it to.

Just give me a sparkling unsweetened tea with extra caffeine. Is that to much to ask?

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6 points

Might be a bit hard for you to buy depending on where you live but YABU energy drink is just straight up carbonated Polish apple juice with caffeine. I drank a few different flavours they have and they are nice.

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4 points

Hiball energy seltzer is pretty good, but they stopped selling it near me.

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1 point

Hiball is crack

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4 points

You can get caffenated water; I’m sure it would carbonate just as well as regular water.

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Dunno where you are, but ChariTea has a new sugar free mate. Mate based drinks in general tend to be at least less sweet than that energy drink stuff.

I personally usually just make coffee at home and take it with me, but I recognise that doesn’t work for everyone.

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2 points

Not to be that guy, but as someone who quit caffeine entirely, honestly it’s kinda great not needing caffeine. I traded my daily coffee for water and now I just drink shitloads of water and it’s honesty glorious. Waking up and just…going is amazing

Wanted to throw it out there because it seems not many people try to kick caffeine

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1 point

I actually think Lipton peach ice tea in 2lt packets have no sugar added, giving them a really mild flavor compared to their fruit juice like flavor in canned and 1lt forms

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1 point

just fucking buy caffeine at this point.

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2 points

Exactly. Home carbonated filtered water and anhydrous caffeine. Just make sure you have an accurate scale.

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or don’t and go wild ass berserk

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Bawls is just guarana and caffeine iirc.

Ed: hfcs in it now I guess, shame

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29 points

Ma’am, that is a 33 cl mixture of gas station sludge. It has no syrup, leaves, or apple juice. It is an amalgamation of the industrial output of several laboratories, distilled, mixed, powdered, re-liquefied, and ultimately inexorably joined in an unholy water chalice. God had no hand in the creation of this abhorrence. The fact that this terrible liquid exists proves that God is either impotent to alter His universe or ignorant to the horrors taking place in his kingdom. This prism of water is more than gas station sludge. It is a physical declaration of mankind’s contempt for the natural order. It is hubris manifest.
We also have a higher glucose variety if you would prefer that.

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7 points

Oh yeah, that’s the one. I’ll take a case.

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4 points

I am so glad the Lemmy hivemind understood that reference because when I upvoted earlier today it was at 0 lmao

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16 points

Why is fucking rittenhouse in the image?

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7 points

very long story. og meme is mocking him, new meme is still kinda mocking him. He got subway sandwich my brother in christ-ed

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comedy 🧐

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